Yunwen covered her face with grief, facing the bloody death of a close one, and she still needed to adapt.
"You should go and have a rest too. I will be on guard alone for one shift tonight. In the second half of the night, you and Yingchun will be on guard for the next two shifts. There are no wild beasts up here. Just keep an eye on the campfire and you'll be fine." I said.
"You go first. We all stayed up all night last night. No one was better than anyone else. I couldn't sleep either. After all, Sister Bailu was a nice person. She's gone just like that. I can't accept it." Yunwen said.
I patted her shoulder gently. A rough guy like me really didn't know how to comfort her. I couldn't say anything nice to make her feel better. However, at this moment, she took my hand on her shoulder, bent down, turned her face and buried it in my chest, clutching my clothes tightly with both hands, and couldn't hold back any longer, and burst into tears.
"Zhou Bo, Sister Bai Lu is gone just like that! I don't know if one day, everyone will disappear like this. Yingchun, you and I will all be swallowed up by this strange island and nothing will be left. I'm so scared, I'm really scared, wuwuwu." Yunwen's tears flowed like a spring, continuously, and the hot tears wet my inner clothes.
I gently stroked her long hair and let her express her sadness and negative emotions. The dead are gone, and the living need to be strong to face everything that comes next. Therefore, it is better to vent as soon as possible so that they can return to the survival game as soon as possible. After all, there is not much time for us to rest.
She cried for a long time until she was tired, then she lay on my legs and fell into a gentle sleep. Not long after I started keeping watch, I also fell asleep. Having not slept last night, I was extremely sleepy and tired. After several eyelid struggles, I fell asleep completely.
I woke up in shock, and was glad that the bonfire was still lit and the firewood was still burning, but I saw Song Yingchun sitting alone on the edge of the cliff, looking at the rising sun, sitting motionless.
After that, I felt a little relieved and fell asleep again for a while. When I woke up again, there were birds singing, a gentle breeze, and the sun was shining brightly. Yunwen and Bailu were both awake and were in a daze. When they saw me wake up, they came over to me.
I saw them coming, and I needed to get rid of the demoralizing atmosphere in the team as soon as possible. We still have a lot of things to do right now. If we delay any further, none of us will be able to live well, so I need to get them back to reality.
"Listen to me, I am as sad as everyone else about Song Bailu's matter, but after being sad, we should cheer up and not let ourselves be depressed, especially you, Song Yingchun! Your sister gave her life to you, you should cherish it and not waste it or live in depression. So let's get moving and live now. Only in this way can we give the best explanation to the dead." I said.
The girls nodded weakly.
"Everyone cheer up, I'll arrange our tasks for today. I'll tie the vines to the tree over there, and after climbing down, I'll tie the things to the vines. You two watch, and pull up when you see me shaking the vines. Move them up as quickly as possible. The wheat has been harvested, and if it's left idle for too long, it will be infested with insects, so we have to move it all up as soon as possible and spread it flat on the ground to dry." I said.
They both still looked absent-minded and answered, I'm really worried that something might happen.
Then I tied the vine to a tree near the cliff, just a little short of the bottom. After pulling it a few times to test it, I went down with my gun on my back. But before I went down, Song Yingchun grabbed my hand and said with red eyes, "Brother Zhou Bo, after you go down, can you look around to see if my sister is still there? Please."
Out of sympathy and understanding, I agreed, but out of practical considerations, I still said, "No, the wolves have made this place a hunting area. If I stay down there for too long, they will detect any movement and I will be in danger. In addition, the Gu Diao knows that it can eat people here, so it may be nearby. It is already very difficult to go down, and it is impossible for me to wander around."
"Just take a look, I promise nothing will happen!" Song Yingchun cried.
"Song Yingchun, I'm not unwilling to go out of selfishness, nor am I afraid of trouble, but if that happens, it will be easy for something to happen to me. If something happens to me, you won't be able to take anything here up with you, and they will just rot. There is basically no food on the top of the mountain, and you will starve to death. Are you willing to do that?" I asked.
She squatted down and cried loudly, so Yunwen came over to persuade her and said to me, "Zhou Bo, don't worry about it. Just go down and I will take care of her."
I nodded, feeling lucky that Yunwen was still there.
To go down along the vines, you have to use the rappelling method you usually train, that is, hold the vines tightly with both hands, use your feet to step on fixed points on the cliff step by step, and then continue to move down with your left and right hands alternately, and then use your legs to step on the next fixed point, and repeat this process.
If it were in the past, or even until yesterday, I would have been confident that I could make it to the bottom, but today is an exception. After all, my palms were all rubbed and bleeding from drilling wood to make fire yesterday. If I have to descend for a long time, my hands' endurance will be much worse, and this is also what I am most worried about right now.
But fortune and wealth are achieved through risk. If my hand injury heals, it will take at least two or three days. Not only will there be no food, but the wheat that has just been harvested will also have problems because it is not handled in time. So it is imperative to transport all the things up quickly while there are no wolves, no Gu Diao, and even before more monsters appear.
As I moved down step by step, my palms felt hot, probably because they were rubbed again. But I didn't care. After all, gravity was still exerting pressure on my knees and my whole body, and I couldn't stop.
Relying on my strong willpower, I reached the bottom of the mountain. I saw bloodstains on the vines and a layer of skin on my hands that had been worn off. Only then did I realize how painful it was. I then had time to blow on myself to relieve the burning sensation.
When we got to the bottom of the mountain, everything was the same as before. The backpack was hidden under the boards of the wooden ox and horse and tied with ropes. I quickly untied it. There were dried beef, bronze tools, an engineering shovel and a saw inside. I tied them to vines first and shook them hard. Soon Yunwen was carried up.
Although I explained everything to Xiao Yingchun, I was still concerned about my teammates. As the saying goes, if they are alive, I want to see them; if they are dead, I want to see their bodies. Without getting an answer, I still wanted to know more. So while they were loading the backpacks, I went to investigate the route that Song Bailu took to escape yesterday, including the corner where she disappeared.
I turned the gun on my back around, held it, and walked close to the corner to make sure most of my body was hidden. Then I stuck my head out. To be honest, I was very nervous and didn't want to see any blood. Fortunately, when I looked forward through the corner, there was nothing but a pile of weeds. I could vaguely see footprints on the ground, but nothing else.
"The Gu Diao was so close to her at that time. If it wanted to eat her, the distance of a few steps should be about the right distance. Even if it chewed her up and ate her, there would be blood stains on the ground. But how come there is no smell at all?" I was a little confused, but a trace of luck rose in my heart.
But now is not a good time to investigate the case. The most important thing is to do the business. After saying this, the backpack was put down again. It was empty inside. I went over and unloaded the wheat stuff from the wooden ox horse. After filling the backpack, I shook the vines again. Not long after, they pulled it up again at the top of the mountain and transported it up.